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Another song that reminds me of Michael. The artist that sings this will always be missed to.
Song : Miss You
Singer : AALIYAH
lyrics :
[CHORUS]
It's been too long and I'm lost without u
What am I gonna do
Said I been needin' you, wantin' you
(Said I need you)
Wonderin' if ur the same and who's been with you
Is ur heart still mine
I wanna cry sometimes
I miss you
[VERSE 1]
Off to college
Yes you went away
Straight from high school
You up and left me
We were close friends
Also lovers
Did everything
For one another
Now ur gone and I'm lost without you here now
But I know I gotta live and make it somehow
Come back...to me
Can you...hear me (Callin')
Hear me...callin' (For you)
For you...'Cuz it's
[CHORUS]
It's been too long and I'm lost without you
What am I gonna do
Said I been needin' you, wantin' you
Wonderin' if ur the same and who's been with you
Is ur heart still mine
I wanna cry sometimes
I miss you
[VERSE 2]
Now I'm sittin' here
Thinkin' 'bout you
And the days we used to share
It's drivin' me crazy
I don't know what to do
I'm just wonderin' if you still care
I don't wanna let you know
That it's killin' me
I know you got another life you gotta concentrate baby
Come back...to me
Can you...hear me (Callin')
Hear me...callin' (For you)
For you...'Cuz it's
[CHORUS 2x]
It's been too long and I'm lost without you
What am I gonna do
Said I been needin' you, wantin' you
Wonderin' if ur the same and who's been with you
Is ur heart still mine
I wanna cry sometimes
I miss you
[BRIDGE]
I...can't...breathe...no...more
Since you went away I
Don't really feel like talkin'
Don't wanna hear you don't love me
Baby do you understand me
I can't do a thing without you
[CHORUS 3x]
It's been too long and I'm lost without you
(Tell me what I'm gonna do)
What am I gonna do
Said I been needin' you, wantin' you
Wonderin' if ur the same and who's been with you
Is ur heart still mine
I wanna cry sometimes
I miss you
Michael's TV Guide interveiw.
June 17, 2000
TV Guide p. 30-32
By Janet Weeks
At 15, Michael Cuccione of MTV's 2gether has battled illness in life and on-screen and wats fans to know: surrender is not an option
Stacked beneath the telivision in Michael Cuccione's comfortable Cancouver family home are two very different video tapes. The first is 2gether, MTV's hit boy-band mockumentary featuring the 15-year-old Cuccione as Jason "QT" McKnight, a karoke-bar singer asked to join a musical group called 2gether because his terminal illness makes him irresistable to girls. When QT faints onstage one night, his manager smiles. "He's suffering from bilary thrombosis," the manager says. "That is what we in the business call a publicity bonanza." The February 21 TV-movie is being spun off into a series beginning August 15.
As for the other tape, it isn't funny at all. There's Michael five years agho, wan and bald in a hospital bed, fighting cancer for real. The tape chronicles his treatment, from chemotherpy to radiation and finally a painful stemcell infusion (similiar to a bone-marrow transplant). At the end, Michael, in recovery, speaks into the camera about the need for cancer research.
The sick little boy in tpae No. 2 bears little resemblance to the teen sitting here, in his kitchen, snacking on cinamon toast. A much better likeness can be seen in the nearby framed photo of a happy Cuccione, along with his 2gether bandmate Noah Bastian, arm-in-arm with Britney Spears. "She's hot!" says Michael, who sounds like any other teen and who, despite his new found fame, does not have a girlfriend. That's not to say he's lacking female fans: Spears herself invited Michael and his made-for-MTV band to be the opening act on her summer tour (Negotiations are underway).
Almost siz years ago, life wasnt so smooth for Cuccione. On July 25, 1994, 9-year-old Michael was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. Doctors found lumps on his coollarbone, one the size of a golf ball. HIs chances of recovery were good- Hodgkin's is one of the most treatable cancers. The disease went into remission after six months of chemotherapy but then returned. "I went from a 90 percent chance of making it to a 20 percent chance," he says.
During his hospital stay, Michael asked his parents- Domenic, who operates a Burger King franchise, and Gloria, who retired from selling women's clothing when Michael became ill- to rbing him his electronic keyboard. He had been taking dance, voice and piano lessons for years, but even his mom and dad were surprised when he began composing music in the hospital. Michael told his parents he wanted to record a CD to raise money for cancer research. When he had written 5 songs, his folks put up ,000. Several companies (including Burger King) offered to market the CD, Make A Difference, in theur stores and restuarants; local newspapers and TV stations reported on Michael's efforts, and by 1996 the Michael Cuccione Foundation was off and running. SO far, the organization has raised more than ,000.
"To find a cure for cancer that isn't worse than the disease iteself- that's my goal." says Cuccione. In addition to the CD, he's written and self-published a book, There Are Survivors, with his grandmother, retired elementary school teacher Jane MacSporran, about the cancer experience; all profits go to his foundation. Both Cuccione and MacSporran kept journals throughout the family's ordeal.
Despite his local renown, MTV producers were unawarre of Cuccione's past heath problems when they hired him. "I had absolutely no knowledge of it," says Brian Graden, MTV"s president of programming. Today, when the question inevitably is put to Cuccione about how a cancer survivor can joke about terminal illness in a TV-movie, he is ready with the answer. "The most important thing is to be able to go through something difficult and come out with a positive attitude," he says. "You have to make light of every situation. It makes it easier in the long run." But even Cuccione's father admits that the family (including Micahel's sister, Sophia, 17, and brother Steven, 11) would not have wanted Michael to appear in 2gether if the character had cancer. "This disease is make-believe," Domenic says about the fictional illness. "This was easy."
Not so easy is Michael's annual post-cancer cheup. This year's visit, in July, will be his fifth. Says Domenic: "There's never a day that goes by that I don't worry. If the big C was to come back...
His voice trails off, and Michael is quick to jump in. "
I'm here," he says, "to stay."
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